Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mbch331 - New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata:Notability_overhaul - Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Conflict_of_Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Speedy_vs_Regular_deletion (stale)
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- A study http://www.jmir.org/2015/5/e110/ has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/ - MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links http://blog.musicbrainz.org/2015/05/08/downstream-wikipedia-link-usage-and-migration-to-wikidata/ - Past: Open Data for Academics https://www.facebook.com/events/359195237603987/ - some media available on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_data_for_academics. - Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp http://camp.ouisharelabs.net/2015/ in Paris - Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015 in Lyon
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST). - Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006042.html. Please read and comment. - The Wikidata Menu Challenge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival. - Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=301 - The Frick Collection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Frick_Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now. - The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19860435 has been discovered and added to Wikidata. - Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=4925623) - Woah! Volcanos! https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=57 (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1886, cathedral https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1885, hair color https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1884, Declarator.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1883, Web Gallery of Art identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1882, list of characters https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1881, measured by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1880, income classification (Philippines) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1879, Vox-ATypI classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1878, after a work by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1877, spacecraft https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1876
Development
- Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006038.html \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource. - Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/597082067705438209 - Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.) - Continued working on RDF export - More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time) - Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - Help fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia